TOPICS IN MUSIC HISTORY 603 (1900-2011)

LISTENING

(F-11)

 

You’ll find recordings of all the selections on a set of CDs on reserve in the library which circulate overnight.  Scores are on reserve in binders  I’ve posted a PDF of each selection on this website and, when I could, an analytical note. 

 

Topic 1 – Igor Stravinsky, Life and works

Stravinsky, Petrushka, 1st Tableau                                       score

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Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, 1st part                                        score

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Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments                        score

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Stravinsky, Orpheus                                                            score

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Stravinsky, Agon                                                                 score

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Stravinsky, In memoriam Dylan Thomas                               score

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Topic 2 – The Rise and fall of 12-tone music

Arnold Schoenberg, Wind Quintet, 1st mvt                            score

                                                   4th mvt                             score

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Anton Webern, Cantata #1, 1st mvt                                      score

                                         2nd mvt                                      score

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Milton Babbitt, 3 Compositions for piano                               score

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Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kreuzspiel                                       score

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Aaron Copland, Piano quartet. 1st mvt                                  score

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Alban Berg, Violin concerto (1st mvt)                                     score

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Topic 3 – Experimental Music

Charles Ives, 3 quarter-tone pieces, 1st mvt                          score

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Pierre Schaeffer, Five Studies of Noises, excerpts                no score

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John Cage,  4’33”                                                                score

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Cornelius Cardew,  The Great Learning, P 7                         score

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Henry Cowell,  Advertisement                                              score

   The Banshee                                               score

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Edgard Varčse,  Ionisation                                                   score

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John Cage,  The Perilous Night                                            score

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Conlon Nancarrow, Studies for player piano                          #23 score

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Luciano Berio, Sequenza V for Trombone                             score

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John Cage, Concert for piano and orchestra                         score

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Giacinto Scelsi, Maknongan                                                 score

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Topic 4 - 20th-century opera

Alban Berg, Wozzeck  (excerpt)                                           score

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Leos Janacek, The House of the Dead,                                score

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Robert Ashley, Perfect Lives                                                libretto

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Philip Glass , Einstein on the Beach                                                 libretto

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Topic 5 – Art/Pop/Folk

Ralph Vaughan Williams, 5 Variants of Dives and Lazarus     score

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Aaron Copland,  Billy the Kid (Scene 1)                                score

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Heitor Villa Lobos,  Chôros #7 (septet)                                 score

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Béla Bartók, Improvisations, op. 20                                      score

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Béla Bartók, 5th string quartet (1st mvt)                                score

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Charles Ives,  Putnam’s Camp                                             score

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George Crumb,  Wayfaring stranger                                     score

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William Bolcom, Songs of Innocence and Experience            score

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